Listener comments!

Thu. 10/29/09 2:07am
Kendall!:
HI GUYS. It's my first night ever being awake to hear this show. Sorta. I'm gonna go to sleep before the intro is over probably. I guess I'll listen in the morning while I"m at my desk.

Thu. 10/29/09 3:31am
Indiana Jordan:
Well, in that case, maybe I shouldn't be too creeped out. I mean, you seem nice and all. Maybe ghosts aren't so terrifying, after all.

Thu. 10/29/09 5:16am
Joshua K:
I like that dudes blog

Thu. 10/29/09 5:43am
Meghan:
I like the crispies in a bar.... mounds was the worst

Thu. 10/29/09 5:46am
Meghan:
Did this already get covered? Did someone ever snap the rubber band on the train platform?

Thu. 10/29/09 5:50am
NS And:
No eggplant in Turkey???

Thu. 10/29/09 5:51am
Joshua K:
Any turkeys in turkey or are they just named the same?

Thu. 10/29/09 5:53am
Joshua K:
1541, "guinea fowl" (Numida meleagris), imported from Madagascar via Turkey, by Near East traders known as turkey merchants. The larger North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated by the Aztecs, introduced to Spain by conquistadors (1523) and thence to wider Europe, by way of North Africa (then under Ottoman rule) and Turkey (Indian corn was originally turkey corn or turkey wheat in Eng. for the same reason). The word turkey was first applied to it in Eng. 1555 because it was identified with or treated as a species of the guinea fowl. The Turkish name for it is hindi, lit. "Indian," probably via Fr. dinde (contracted from poulet d'inde, lit. "chicken from India"), based on the common misconception that the New World was eastern Asia. The New World bird itself reputedly reached England by 1524 at the earliest estimate, though a date in the 1530s seems more likely. By 1575, turkey was becoming the usual main course at an English Christmas. Meaning "inferior show, failure," is 1927 in show business slang, probably from the bird's reputation for stupidity. Meaning "stupid, ineffectual person" is recorded from 1951. Turkey shoot "something easy" is World War II-era, in ref. to marksmanship contests where turkeys were tied behind a log with their heads showing as targets.

Thu. 10/29/09 5:53am
Meghan:
Awwww so sad!

Thu. 10/29/09 5:57am
Joshua K:
So the turkey was named after the country but in turkey they named it after India???

Sat. 6/5/10 2:55pm
Jesus Christ:
The film that Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin made in 1967 of Bigfoot was real. The creature they filmed was half man and half gorilla. A human-primate hybrid.
Bigfoot was created by men who were slaves and ran off and ended up in Africa. They used ropes to catch female gorillas and had sex with them and created Bigfoot and eventually the African people. Bigfoot is a man made creature.